Is the new ubiquity of cellphones making our culture more oral than literate? And if oral culture entails more "liveness," does it also make culture more essentialist and symbolic, less constructed, collaged and allegorical?
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I don't know that the ubiquitous presence of cellphones necessarily makes our culture more oral, especially since the prevalence of the internet in the United States rivals that of cellphone usage. We communicate just as frequently by IM and email as we do by cellphone (some of us more frequently, in fact). I'm not sure that cellphone usage is necessarily less constructed than one to one communication, although without the ability to correct oneself real-time, it is certainly less constructed than email or text.
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